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Among the Magazines 11: lumbus. Pioneers of England in the New World and the struggle for possession, ending with the expulsion of the French.) I. The Winning of Independence (Three plays, in nine reels. Shall Englishmen in the New World submit to dictation from King and Parliament of Eng- land? Battlefields of the Revo- lution, following Washington.) II. The Young Republic (Two plays in six reels. The Constitution and the new Gov- ernment, following Hamilton and Jefferson.) V. The Vision of the West (Three plays, in 24 reels. The conquest of the continent from the Alleghanies to the Pacific Ocean. The Old West and the New.) i] The Storm of Secession (Five plays, in 15 reels. The preservation of the Union and the extermination of slavery. Abraham Lincoln. Battlefields of the Civil War, following I Stonewall Jackson, Lee and Grant.) VI. The Age of Power (Five plays, in 25 reels. The transformation caused by the inflow of immigrants and the development and utilization of mechanical power on a great scale; picturing invention and the mechanical revolution and the America of today.) rhe account is concluded with this iphatic—and unquestionably sound— pression of the educational possibili- s of the screen. 'The screen as a medium for education pears to be no longer on trial. Its wer and efficiency are admitted. It is fact, however, that while the non-the- ical motion picture is gaining ground daily, only a small percentage of the in- stitutions of the country are employing this medium of instruction owing to the unorganized condition of the non-theat- rical field up to the present time. But this field has at least been scratched, and as a result the seed has taken root. "The galvanic power of the screen, its power to arouse and stimulate the facul- ties, whether rightly or wrongly used, has never been disputed. It is now pro- posed to apply this power to American history, studied hitherto through the medium of the written word alone." The Romantic History of the Motion Picture by Terry Ramsaye in Photoplay for April THE word "romantic" in the title, the announcement of "a year of exacting research" (evidently sup- posed to be an awe-inspiring thought), the extravagant emphasis on the won- derful disclosures to be expected—these lead one to expect the usual hifalutin stuff that makes the "literature" of movie- dom. But the introductory flourish once skipped, the serious reader may be agree- ably surprised. Considering that practically no sig- nificant effort has been made so far to write the story of the motion picture's swift career, this series may be accepted as what it claims to be: "The first his- tory of the Motion Picture ... a story of Men, not Things." Mr. Ramsaye gives an interesting and informing chronicle of the swift-moving develop- ment of the huge industry we know to- day. It is pleasant, straightforward narrative, full of significant details, and singularly free from the "Oh, how won- derful" tone so nearly universal and so completely monotonous, in the movie magazines. To judge by the first in- (Concludcd on page 128)